Happy Growing
Thank you for being here. Happy Growing is a personal podcast for you and with you. It shares knowledge and stories about life challenges, dealing with change, loving yourself, finding joy, building healthy relationships, finding your passion and following your intuition. Verena talks about her life in her 20s as a German living abroad and travelling as much as possible. In addition, Happy Growing hosts guests who are professionals in mental health and wellbeing, business owners, experts in spirituality and coaching and much more. It is also a space for you to share your story. Your engagement is encouraged and you are warmly invited to reach out. Whatever you have to share, your words have value. All my love, Verena @happygrowingpodcast
Episodes
130 episodes
#142 - Life will bend toward you when you do
Every experience is there for you to go through it. It’s not in your life to fight it or push it away. The more you know yourself and are connected to your core and intuition, the more you understand being led by life.Topics:Life ha...
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#141 - My year 2024: The mind blocks out the joy
A personal yearly review and emphasis on getting out of your head and into your body. Not just that, it’s about getting out of your head and into the external - being present, focusing on the people around you and connection, movement and takin...
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#140 - Radical Responsibility
This week’s episode is a proper pep talk! You’ve got to get your sh*t together and get a move on, or nothing is going to happen. No one else is going to do it for you. It’s your life, so create it!Topics:Positioning yourself as a cr...
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#139 - Leaving London, living in Germany & moving to Australia
Hi, it’s so amazing to be back! I really enjoyed recording this episode, and it definitely felt like a personal journal entry. There is so much that happened this year and this week’s episode includes most of my learnings from the past few mont...
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#138 - I am changing & so is the Podcast
Since August 2021, Happy Growing has been a big part of my life and there hasn’t been one week without a new episode. I have taken you on travels, recorded in closets in AirBnBs and somehow always had ideas and time that I wanted to share with ...
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#137 - Grieving a life you could've had
Sometimes, your life turns out differently than planned. And that can be for many reasons. It might be that something unexpected happened, that you realised you actually want your life to be different, that your plans were dependent on another ...
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#136 - Going against society's norms
I don’t know about you, but for me, not following my dreams and fitting into society’s expectations and ideals instead, means living a life of unfulfillment.This week, I talk about the internal conflict of following a life you want to l...
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#135 - Valentine's Special: How I learnt to love myself again
Happy Valentine’s Day, lovely people. If you celebrate it or not, today and the past few weeks have been all about love.As we know, the most important love in your life is the one you have for yourself. It’s about the connection and rel...
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#133 - Opening up
Opening up is one of the strongest and bravest things you can do. It’s something that you can be incredibly proud of.Though, many of us are finding it difficult to open up, and that can be for many different reasons. Maybe you haven’t l...
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#132 - It's about the small things yet to happen
It’s always about the next big move in life. It’s about the career progress, getting married, having babies, travelling to certain places and all the materialistic wishes becoming reality. But none of this is ever something on its own. There is...
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#131 - Advice to my younger self
With a lot of personal growth that’s been happening over the past couple of months, I’ve had a lot of understandings and insights surrounding myself that I felt I wanted to share with my past-self. And with you.I’ve done an episode givi...
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#130 - Romanticising January
Many of us see January as a rather depressing month. It’s still dark and cold, but the holidays have just passed and there isn’t much to look forward to. We have to adjust to the new year and there might even be pressures put on us by the capit...
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#129 - Your most important goals for 2024
At the beginning of a new year we are always bombarded with new ways and products and subscriptions and plans to make ourselves ‘better’. But most of it creates stress and pressure and is far off from actually improving our lives.There ...
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#128 - My year 2023 - A personal review
Reflecting on the year that has just been is one of the most important and beautiful things you can do. And doing it myself for this episode has proven this all over again.Happy Growing’s last episode of the year is all about my persona...
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#127 - Christmas-Special Q&A
Merry happy everything! It’s Christmas Day, and it’s the third Christmas-Special Q&A for Happy Growing. Thank you all for sending in your questions and for being here and supporting Happy Growing!This Q&A answers many personal q...
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#126 - Looking after yourself during the holidays
Winter and the holiday season can be overwhelming times for many. The reasons for overwhelm, stress or loneliness depend on you and your individual situation. But just as there are many reasons that can make this time challenging, there are als...
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#125 - Let's fall in love with real life again
Let’s have arguments, messy flats that don’t fit a certain aesthetic, let’s have laundry drying in out bedrooms & cutlery that doesn’t match. Let’s be real, let’s change & do it with emotions. Let’s share our worries, be scared, grow &a...
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#124 - Doing nothing is self-love
Social Media and content everywhere shows you how best to look after yourself. How to journal, get your nails done, move your body, what to drink and eat, how much to sleep and how to think. And to be honest, I think it’s great to have so much ...
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#123 - Loneliness in adulthood
Over are the times of always being in school-classes with others, always being around people your own age, studying together all week and being able to relax on the weekends. At least that’s what school looked like for many people.In ad...
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#122 - What makes you Happy?
Your experience of happiness is uniquely yours & no definition or logical explanation could ever live up to it. But why is happiness so unique? Why is it important? And how can you work towards your own happiness?In this week’s epis...
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#121 - I don't have life figured out
I’m currently going through a lot of change and much of it is actually being brought to life and happening next year. A lot had to happen for me to get to where I am now, and things are never going to stop changing - and that’s okay. That’s nor...
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#120 - You're great at doing life
This week’s episode is a very personal reminder for how great you are. For all the effort, love, care and energy you put into your daily life. You are so great at doing life.And sometimes, things might not seem right. Something might fe...
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#119 - The Five Love Languages
This theory from the 90s is most likely something, you have at least heard about over the years. But what is it really about? What are the Five Love Languages and how do they work? Are they actually benefitting relationships? And how can you fi...
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